And I will probably fail to fill out this blog. Is this another great project that I will end up abandoning in a week? Or even after one post?
I struggle with ADD pretty much forever. My diagnose took many years to come. I've always been around psychiatrists because of my recurrent post partum depression. I always felt I was not achieving all I could because my brain was just to racy and I couldn't focus. Doctors always took my underachievement feeling as a symptom of depression. Turned out it was not just that.
I was always a average student. No problem whit my grades. I was curious and quiet. Sometimes ADD people can over focus.
and I will book a night out with friends the same day I told you I would go shopping with you. I might end up going to the movies by myself because I completely forgot about it all. I just got caught up in my own brain storm and I couldn't make it.
I lost my best friends brother's funeral, I didn't go visit when my friend had her first baby and I didn't do so many other things I completely forgot about now...
There is not such thing as priorities to ADD people? Where is my sense of loyalty sometimes? My sense of being there for people I care about? It doesn't exist and ADD is just an excuse to be lazy and selfish?
Sometimes in my ADD brain, some dates get stuck. The wrong date.
The day I had that important test I had to travel 100 miles to attend to?
I was sure I got it right. All the time, in my mind I kept saying: on the 12th I have the test, on the 12th I need to be there. I was there. Nobody else was there. Empty parking lots. Just my sheety old car and me. The test is tomorrow, says the genitor I spoke to.
Well. I was so sure.
Why not to confirm? Why do it if you have all (sometimes wrong) on your mind?
ADD people are known for not being to careful to details. No the best to keep reminders (they forget to look at the reminders, after a while they are just one more piece of paper in an ocean of pieces of paper or one more mark in a doodled